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December 21 or December 22 (Northern Hemisphere) ... the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, ...
Saturday Dec. 21, 2024 marks the ... The holiday is thought to celebrate the sun's return and the land's rebirth as days begin to get longer after the longest night of the year.
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the official first day of winter, is on Saturday, December 21, this year (well, for the vast bulk of the world’s population anyway).
This worship service is traditionally held on or around the longest night of the year, which falls on or about December 21, the Winter Solstice. There is an interesting convergence for this day as it is also the traditional feast day for Saint Thomas the Apostle. This linkage invites making some connections between Saint Thomas's struggle to ...
The longest night happens on the solstice because the hemisphere is in its furthest position from the sun. That occurs each year on Dec. 21 or 22. This year, it falls on Dec. 21 at 4:21 a.m ET ...
It also represents the longest night of the year, and the time when the sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. ... This year, it falls on Saturday 21 December at 9:21am, while ...
Longest night of the year in Northern Hemisphere [rs 1] Date: December 21 (20 in leap year) Frequency: ... This corresponds to the night of December 20/21 ...